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This is a fantastic idea for retrospective infectious disease contact tracking. I hope this concept is picked up by WHO/government or at least put on a local tr
by fudged71 7y ago
This is a fantastic idea for retrospective infectious disease contact tracking. I hope this concept is picked up by WHO/government or at least put on a local trial.
Why don't phones already keep a local log of recent Bluetooth device IDs?
- tastroder 7y ago> Why don't phones already keep a local log of recent Bluetooth device IDs? Because embedded hardware like phones usually only persistently store the information for which an actual use case exists. "recent BT device IDs" amounts to quite a bit of information (that is occasionally pretty useless in the case of unknown devices) and would require frequent scanning when you are on the move with little practical purpose outside the tracking space. There's enough approaches to create these profiles from the IT security and ad space but I consider myself lucky in living in a jurisdiction where such tracking is likely considered illegal.
- sunemai 7y agoI've heard that everybody is connected with a surprisingly low number of intermediate steps. Maybe now would be a good time to try that out;-) So, if you know anybody...